Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 14:49:12 +0300 From: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> To: Denis Polygalov <dpolyg@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD X11 mailing list <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: desirable graphics card for testing drm-next-kmod wayland/weston Message-ID: <1527421752.58852.1@hraggstad.unrelenting.technology> In-Reply-To: <e2c04b09-f175-baaa-4ca4-961a3c437e56@gmail.com> References: <e2c04b09-f175-baaa-4ca4-961a3c437e56@gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 7:40 AM, Denis Polygalov <dpolyg@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to play with drm-stable-kmod/drm-next-kmod wayland/weston > and report results to community and maybe dig into the code. > Which *AMD Radeon* *PCIe* graphics card would you recommend to buy? > The reason I'm asking here is because information regarding support > of AMD Radeon cards here: > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics > is seems to be related to only "old" drm2 drivers. Or I just don't > understand all this mess with multiple "drm"s ... > Where can I find information about which AMD Radeon card model is the > latest supported by the drm-stable-kmod ? > Note that I would like to get more or less working box, not just > kernel panic... Hi! Polaris (RX 4xx/5xx) is the latest supported card by drm-stable (4.9 currently). Keep in mind that if you use UEFI boot, you need to disable the EFI framebuffer currently: https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/issues/170 As for Weston, you might want to check out my fork https://github.com/myfreeweb/weston I'm currently using it as my daily desktop as well as for developing Rust bindings https://github.com/myfreeweb/weston-rs
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